Brendan Nyhan
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American political scientist
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Brendan Nyhan's Degrees
- PhD Political Science Duke University
- Bachelors Political Science Swarthmore College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brendan Nyhan is an American political scientist and professor at Dartmouth College. He is also a liberal to moderate political blogger, author, and political columnist. He was born in Mountain View, California and now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Brendan Nyhan's Published Works
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Published Works
- The science of fake news (2018) (2192)
- When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions (2010) (1951)
- Redefine statistical significance (2017) (1806)
- Effective Messages in Vaccine Promotion: A Randomized Trial (2014) (989)
- The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017) (552)
- Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature (2018) (501)
- Does correcting myths about the flu vaccine work? An experimental evaluation of the effects of corrective information. (2015) (443)
- How Conditioning on Posttreatment Variables Can Ruin Your Experiment and What to Do about It (2018) (394)
- Selective exposure to misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign (2018) (385)
- Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media (2020) (277)
- The Hazards of Correcting Myths About Health Care Reform (2013) (237)
- Political sectarianism in America (2020) (213)
- Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability (2017) (212)
- Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 U.S. election (2020) (207)
- A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India (2020) (189)
- Why the "Death Panel" Myth Wouldn't Die: Misinformation in the Health Care Reform Debate (2010) (168)
- Bayesian Model Averaging: Theoretical Developments and Practical Applications (2010) (151)
- The Effect of Fact-Checking on Elites: A Field Experiment on U.S. State Legislators (2015) (137)
- The "unfriending" problem: The consequences of homophily in friendship retention for causal estimates of social influence (2010) (126)
- Understanding Innovations in Journalistic Practice: A Field Experiment Examining Motivations for Fact‐Checking (2016) (120)
- The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions (2019) (110)
- One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election (2012) (107)
- The effects of corrective information about disease epidemics and outbreaks: Evidence from Zika and yellow fever in Brazil (2020) (97)
- Displacing Misinformation about Events: An Experimental Test of Causal Corrections (2015) (85)
- A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (69)
- Misinformation and Fact-checking : Research Findings from Social Science (2012) (69)
- Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President's Vulnerability to Media Scandal (2015) (66)
- Critical dynamics in population vaccinating behavior (2017) (56)
- Differential Registration Bias in Voter File Data: A Sensitivity Analysis Approach (2017) (52)
- Facts and Myths about Misperceptions (2020) (51)
- Increasing the Credibility of Political Science Research: A Proposal for Journal Reforms (2015) (51)
- Why the backfire effect does not explain the durability of political misperceptions (2021) (47)
- Beliefs Don't Always Persevere: How Political Figures Are Punished When Positive Information about Them Is Discredited (2013) (47)
- Conspiracy and Misperception Belief in the Middle East and North Africa (2018) (44)
- Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump Presidency (2019) (43)
- Connecting the candidates: : consultant networks and the diffusion of campaign strategy in American congressional elections (2015) (42)
- The role of social networks in influenza vaccine attitudes and intentions among college students in the Southeastern United States. (2012) (41)
- Who will defend democracy? Evaluating tradeoffs in candidate support among partisan donors and voters (2019) (41)
- The Effects of Congressional Staff Networks in the US House of Representatives (2017) (40)
- All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth (2004) (40)
- The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity (2021) (37)
- Estimating Fact-checking's Eects † Evidence from a long-term experiment during campaign 2014 (2015) (35)
- The sources and correlates of exposure to vaccine-related (mis)information online (2020) (35)
- Elite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms (2021) (32)
- Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility (2021) (31)
- Media Scandals Are Political Events (2017) (21)
- The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections (2021) (20)
- Fighting the Past: Perceptions of Control, Historical Misperceptions, and Corrective Information in the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict (2018) (19)
- “Fake news” may have limited effects on political participation beyond increasing beliefs in false claims (2020) (19)
- The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada (2022) (19)
- An inflated view of the facts? How preferences and predispositions shape conspiracy beliefs about the Deflategate scandal (2016) (18)
- Treatment versus Punishment: Understanding Racial Inequalities in Drug Policy. (2019) (17)
- Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability (2019) (16)
- Political audience diversity and news reliability in algorithmic ranking (2020) (16)
- CORRECTIONS WORK ? Research results and practice recommendations (2013) (14)
- Classified or Coverup? The Effect of Redactions on Conspiracy Theory Beliefs (2016) (14)
- Party and Constituency in the U.S. Senate, 1933-2004* (2006) (14)
- Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media (2019) (13)
- Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities & Limits of Reform (2006) (12)
- How Political Science Can Help Journalism (and Still Let Journalists Be Journalists) (2011) (11)
- Tipping the Scales? Testing for Political Influence on Public Corruption Prosecutions (2013) (11)
- The Effects of Congressional Staff Networks in the U.S. House of Representatives (2016) (10)
- Counting the Pinocchios: The effect of summary fact-checking data on perceived accuracy and favorability of politicians (2019) (10)
- More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public (2020) (10)
- Political sectarianism in America A poisonous cocktail of othering , aversion , and moralization poses a threat to democracy (2020) (10)
- Does the US Media Have a Liberal Bias? (2012) (9)
- Revisiting white backlash: Does race affect death penalty opinion? (2018) (8)
- The limited effects of testimony on political persuasion (2011) (8)
- Strategic Outrage: the Politics of Presidential Scandal (2009) (8)
- Time and skeptical opinion content erode the effects of science coverage on climate beliefs and attitudes (2022) (7)
- Exposure to Alternative & Extremist Content on YouTube (2021) (7)
- The Dynamics of Partisan Behavior: CPG in the House and in the Districts 1982-2000 (2007) (6)
- APSA as Amplifier: How to Encourage and Promote Public Voices within Political Science (2015) (6)
- Subscriptions and external links help drive resentful users to alternative and extremist YouTube videos (2022) (5)
- Searching for a Bright Line in the Trump Presidency (2019) (5)
- Answering on cue? How corrective information can produce social desirability bias when racial differences are salient (2015) (4)
- Evaluating the effects of vaccine messaging on immunization intentions and behavior: Evidence from two randomized controlled trials in Vermont. (2021) (4)
- THE EFFECTS OF FACT-CHECKING THREAT Results from a field experiment in the states (2013) (3)
- Does Public Financing Affect Judicial Behavior? Evidence From the North Carolina Supreme Court (2016) (3)
- Self-Affirmation and Identity-Driven Political Behavior (2021) (3)
- The limited effects of partisan and consensus messaging in correcting science misperceptions (2021) (3)
- The Party Edge: Consultant-Candidate Networks in American Political Parties (2010) (3)
- Left versus Rights? Liberal Values, Threat, and Rights Violations (2005) (2)
- Why “backfire effects” do not explain the durability of political misperceptions (2021) (2)
- The Effect of Electoral Inversions on Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from the United States (2020) (2)
- The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions: Evidence from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada (2021) (1)
- Overcoming barriers to vaccination by empowering citizens to maker deliberate choices (2022) (1)
- Survey 1. Who can spot fake news? Testing perception versus reality with survey, experiment, and web traffic data (2020) (1)
- Information From Same‐Race/Ethnicity Experts Online Does Not Increase Vaccine Interest or Intention to Vaccinate (2022) (1)
- More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public – CORRIGENDUM (2021) (1)
- Political audience diversity and news quality (2020) (1)
- Minimal effects from injunctive norm and contentiousness treatments on COVID-19 vaccine intentions: evidence from 3 countries (2022) (1)
- The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada (2022) (1)
- A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (1)
- Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (0)
- Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (0)
- The effects of election eligibility on voter turnout and partisanship : A regression discontinuity approach ∗ (2015) (0)
- More Accurate Yet More Polarized? Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government O cials and the Public (2019) (0)
- A platform penalty for news? How social media context can alter information credibility online (2022) (0)
- Race and the Obama Muslim Myth (2015) (0)
- 1 Title : Redefine Statistical Significance (2017) (0)
- Legislator criticism of a candidate’s conspiracy beliefs reduces support for the conspiracy but not the candidate: Evidence from Marjorie Taylor Greene and QAnon (2022) (0)
- Redefine statistical significance (2017) (0)
- Partisanship Unmasked? The Role of Politics and Social Norms in COVID-19 Mask-Wearing Behavior (2022) (0)
- The Concentric Circles of Constituency : Geographic and partisan representation in the U . S . Senate , 1989-2006 (2009) (0)
- The Rationalizing Voter (2014) (0)
- The challenge of false beliefs ∗ Understanding and countering misperceptions in politics and health care (2016) (0)
- Understanding and stopping the spread of misinformation in India: Survey and experimental evidence (2020) (0)
- The Corrections Dilemma: Media Retractions Increase Belief Accuracy But Decrease Trust (2023) (0)
- Career Management20111Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Gerard A. Callanan and Veronica M. Godshalk. Career Management. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 2010. 485 pp. £48.99 ($75.95), paperback, ISBN: 978141297826 (2011) (0)
- Where is Presidential Power? Action, Expectations, and Executive Discretion (2020) (0)
- Election Research Preacceptance Competition materials (2016) (0)
- An Experimental Test of Verification Threats in Political Debate (2015) (0)
- 2010 Election One Vote out of Step ? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the (2012) (0)
- Supply and Demand for Dirt: Media Coverage of Presidential Scandal in the Contemporary Era (2010) (0)
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